Evidentially yes. I asked someone why Contender pistols (a noted single shot make) were not popular down here and the guy explained that you have to have a second and third shot ready because those hogs are so aggressive. One chased my son home the first month we were here. Big, ugly brutes. I don't hunt but I might make an exception.

There are some hilly areas in Florida. There are even a few rivers that have enough gradient to form rapids. There are also some waterfalls, but they are underground.
The underground aspect is the most interesting to me. There are many first magnitude springs and world class cave diving. It's quite karsty. Some of the obscure springs that feed the Suwanee River are stunningly beautiful; deep, and crystal clear. With the right timing, you can have these springs to yourself. As crowded as it is, there are surprisingly wild places with strange and abundant wild life.

Once, while snorkeling in Silver Glen (a first magnitude spring in the Ocala National Forest) I was watching the sting rays, which have evolved for fresh water, when, suddenly, an otter snatched a mullet a few feet from me. Then, a bald eagle came crashing in and stole the mullet from the otter. I pulled my head out of the water to tell someone, but I was the only person there. That's when I saw a brown bear walking along the trail adjacent to the spring branch.

And crackers. Serious crackers. Cracker-ass-crackers.
Most of the myriad springs are in Northern Florida, and they remain around 72F year round, which can make the heat more fun.
Frost is not uncommon in Florida. I've camped in 18F, and wished I brought more clothes.

Floridians have been stubborn and strange right from the start. In 1845, when Florida joined the United States, the first flag that flew over our capital bore the slogan, 'Let Us Alone'. Florida's cattle-herding settlers didn't cut the same romantic figure as the cowboys of the Old West. Artist Frederic Remington described them as "low-browed cow-folks" who would "shoot and stab each other for the possession of scrawny creatures not fit for a pointer-dog to mess on".

Our People

Since the Second World War, keeping Florida's economy afloat has depended on maintaining a constant influx of new residents, prompting The New Yorker magazine to dub us 'The Ponzi State'.

Our politicians

A study released last year found that, from 2000 to 2010, Florida led all the other states in total convictions of officials and staff who broke federal public corruption laws.

When our political leaders aren't breaking the rules, they're coming up with new ways to embarrass themselves. For instance, our legislators banned gay marriage, but later discovered they had never outlawed bestiality. Our current governor, Rick Scott, gave out a hotline number for dealing with a meningitis outbreak, except it turned out to be for a phone-sex line.

Our sense of always teetering on the edge of disaster

When you live in Florida, you spend half the year watching for hurricanes. Otherwise you're watching for lightning strikes, shark bites, stingray barbs, alligator attacks, coyote packs and the occasional centenarian driver who has confused the brake and accelerator. You can't even trust the ground you walk on. Just ask the folks at the Disney-area resort who saw half of it swallowed by a 100-foot wide sinkhole.

MIAMI — Lawyers gawked from office windows last month when a BMW S.U.V. swiped a parked police cruiser in the parking lot of a courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, then slammed into a gate over and over again.

A judge was at the wheel.

As lawyers used smartphones to snap pictures of the morning spectacle, Judge Lynn D. Rosenthal became the third Broward County judge in six months to be arrested on charges of driving under the influence. A colleague, Judge Gisele Pollack, had been suspended five days earlier after getting arrested on a D.U.I. charge while already on leave for taking the bench intoxicated — twice.

Even for South Florida, where absurd news events are routine and the sheriff went to prison for corruption, the spate of judicial scandals has raised serious questions about whether the arrests in Broward are a bizarre coincidence or underscore a larger systemic problem. In a county where the judiciary is known for old-school nepotism and cronyism, and judges have been caught smoking marijuana in a park and found drunk and partly naked in a hotel hallway, some lawyers find themselves wondering: At what point do isolated instances of misconduct point to something bigger?